Comments on: Ship of Fools on A Cruel Cruel Seahttps://www.balloon-juice.com/2012/12/24/ship-of-fools-on-a-cruel-cruel-sea/
Fri, 09 Dec 2016 13:28:34 +0000hourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6.1By: Stentorhttps://www.balloon-juice.com/2012/12/24/ship-of-fools-on-a-cruel-cruel-sea/#comment-4095007
Sun, 30 Dec 2012 00:28:43 +0000http://www.balloon-juice.com/?p=122420#comment-4095007Ahhh! Too short! That was like a delicious veal cutlet of schaudenfreude, & I ate it all up! Mmmmm, delicious!!
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Wed, 26 Dec 2012 23:06:40 +0000http://www.balloon-juice.com/?p=122420#comment-4087168This reads to me like Frankenstein and his monster: the people giving the speeches and hosting the tables have all contributed to the bubble their Republican readers are sitting in, or they are young enough to have always grown up with Reagan’s “Southern Strategy” ringing in their ears. Now, as they are trying to tell their followers the reality if the situation, the monster refuses to listen.

A clever few – that’s very few – have actually started coming around to just how insane the mob mentality they have created really is. Some recognized it at the dawn of the Tea Party “rallies” and tried laughing it off, but these others finally coming face-to-face with the determined sense of unreality they’ve fostered instead of leaving it at the end of an internet connection or invisible ears on the radio… Are they, too finally seeing the results of decades-long “Me-first/me-only” politics?

You’d hope so: in a two party system, it’s best if one of those parties isn’t utterly insane.

]]>By: Another Halocene Humanhttps://www.balloon-juice.com/2012/12/24/ship-of-fools-on-a-cruel-cruel-sea/#comment-4086246
Wed, 26 Dec 2012 17:38:08 +0000http://www.balloon-juice.com/?p=122420#comment-4086246@Patrick Phelan: Good point. Do we treat them better? Well, the VAWA is held up right now because Eric Cantor doesn’t think we should be able to prosecute white men who live on reservations and rape Native American women who are members of tribes.

This really needs more publicity, like “It’s Rape A Native Free Day on The Rez” “Thank You, Eric”. He’s such a chickenshit he’d hide and deny everything and then claim he was the victim.

@trollhattan: If that dumbshit knew anything about Europe he’d have known the real real estate and investment steal is Slovenija. Medit. climate, avoided the Yugoslavian wars, free entry to/from Trieste due to the Schengen system, and hasn’t been overrun like other Central European countries by foreign investors building big box crap.

Btw, you want a real nice, affordable vacay spot, go to Ljubljana. Castle, gardens, canal, cafes, & train to anywhere in the country. The castle is on this sheer cliff thing and is guarded by a dragon. All that and Viennese coffee.

Because that’s the closest analogue to the Aborigines. We white Australians came in, killed most of them, and shunted the rest into communities far from anywhere. Now, I won’t argue that the woman was wrong to say America treats its Natives better than Australia treats its Aborigines, but I don’t think that’s what she was saying. In context, she seems to be saying that America treats black Americans better than Australia treats Aborigines. And that’s only a sensible thing to say if you start from a basis of “all nonwhite people are alike”.

I mean, I know that’s a self-answering question, but I still wanted it out there.

Melissa O’Sullivan, the Alabaman wife of John, wasn’t buying the idea that Republicans had alienated minorities. “We’ve invited them to join us!” she insisted.

And that right there is another viewpoint into the Republican mind. No thought about “Do they find our position appealing?” No, that’s taken as a given, that they’d be grateful for the invitation. And also the implication she doesn’t seem to be aware she’s making – that minorities were not welcome among Republicans until they got that invitation.

And they wonder why their approval rating among the non-white population is somewhere south of jock itch.

That first photo caption would have been so much better if it read “Ralph Reed (left) with an iguana”.

“Reptile (left) with an iguana”

The people who would pay to go on an NRO cruise fully deserve the shitty time they will have.

]]>By: anglerhttps://www.balloon-juice.com/2012/12/24/ship-of-fools-on-a-cruel-cruel-sea/#comment-4082389
Tue, 25 Dec 2012 00:25:24 +0000http://www.balloon-juice.com/?p=122420#comment-4082389@Jay: thanks for the link. It’s good and disconcerting that the 2007 review was filled with the same implied “conservatism at the dead end” take that the NYM piece of today is. Sadly, they ain’t going away.

Also interesting how much they obsessed on Iraq. It’s gone down the memory hole.